Chapter Summaries

Long Ling and the Black Clan purified the cave abode with the Netherblue Lotus, recovered the Black Clan’s Ghost Dance cultivation method, and uncovered a traitor. Hei Luo attacked the ancestral hall but was defeated when Long Ling contained his self-destruction with the lotus.

• Long Ling used the blue lotus and the Black Clan experts’ strength to destroy the cave abode’s black shadows, then claimed the lotus as a Black Clan ancestral treasure.
• Long Ling learned from an ancient scroll that the Netherblue Lotus could strengthen the Black Clan’s bloodline and cultivation, and the clan used a ritual to reveal the Ghost Dance method.
• Hei Feng arrived gravely injured, and Long Ling used the lotus’s energy to heal him while the Black Clan investigated a suspected traitor.
• Long Ling and the Black Clan exposed elder Hei Luo’s plot to seize control of the clan, and Hei Luo attacked the ancestral hall with forbidden powers.
• Hei Luo tried to escape and then self-destruct, but Long Ling used the Netherblue Lotus to contain the blast and protect the Black Clan.

After uncovering the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s role in Hei Luo’s failed coup, the Black Clan joined forces with Fierce Tiger Sect against its disciples. Xi Daozi then ordered the Taiyin Sacred Ground to gather its forces and march on Black City, escalating the conflict.

• The Black Clan found evidence linking Hei Luo to the Taiyin Sacred Ground, learned its plan to control the clan and obstruct Fierce Tiger Sect, and purged Hei Luo and the spies.
• The Black Clan’s elders condemned the Taiyin Sacred Ground, and the Black Clan joined forces with Fierce Tiger Sect to eliminate its disciples in the surrounding areas.
• At the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s base, elders discussed their repeated defeats by Lihu City and ordered their disciples to prepare for another attack.
• Xi Daozi learned that Hei Luo’s plan had failed and that Taiyin Sacred Ground disciples were being massacred near Lihu City.
• Xi Daozi ordered the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s disciples to return, its forces to gather, and an assault on Black City to begin.

The Black Clan prepared to defend Black City from Taiyin Sacred Ground, and the two factions fought a fierce battle across the Sky Zenith Domain. As the Black Dragon Chieftain and Hei Feng battled Xi Daozi, he unleashed his Shadow Avatar, and the Chieftain countered by trapping the shadows in a net of black lightning.

• The Black Dragon Chieftain and Long Ling rallied the Black Clan and organized defenses after learning Taiyin Sacred Ground was preparing to attack Black City.
• The Black Clan and Taiyin Sacred Ground assembled their forces, and the Black Dragon Chieftain declared that those who offended the Black Clan would be executed.
• The two factions clashed, with the Black Clan using its knowledge of the terrain and traps while Taiyin Sacred Ground attacked with powerful treasures and tactics.
• The Black Dragon Chieftain and Xi Daozi fought with their strongest techniques, and Hei Feng joined the battle to support the Chieftain.
• Xi Daozi used Taiyin Sacred Ground's Shadow Avatar secret art, and the Black Dragon Chieftain answered with Black Dragon Sky-Rending Claw, surrounding the shadows with black lightning.

Great Immortal Weasel joined the battle against the Taiyin Sacred Ground, using his poisonous gas to overwhelm Xi Daozi and the other cultivators. The Taiyin forces found a way to resist the stench, but Great Immortal Weasel escalated his bizarre attack with dense, spiral-shaped bursts of gas.

• The Black Dragon Chieftain and Hei Feng fought Xi Daozi while Great Immortal Weasel watched from the clouds and secretly incapacitated cultivators approaching Long Ling.
• Great Immortal Weasel entered the battle, deflected Xi Daozi’s attacks, and killed a Taiyin disciple who mocked him.
• Great Immortal Weasel challenged Xi Daozi to withstand three moves, then used poisonous gas to disorient him as the Black Dragon Chieftain and Hei Feng attacked.
• Xi Daozi rallied the Taiyin cultivators, and Elder Li advised them to form true-qi barriers to keep the poisonous gas away.
• Great Immortal Weasel released even denser, spiral-shaped gas, leaving Black City’s cultivators stunned by his bizarre technique.

Great Immortal Weasel fought Taiyin Sacred Ground while taunting its cultivators, and the Black Clan prepared to support him. Taiyin Sacred Ground countered his poisonous gas with virgin boys’ urine and sought Qingxin Grass, leaving both sides braced for a harder battle.

• Great Immortal Weasel mocked Taiyin Sacred Ground as the Taiyin Saintess, Xi Yifu, descended and began fighting him.
• The Black Dragon Chieftain and Hei Feng praised Great Immortal Weasel’s unorthodox tactics and ordered the Black Clan to stand ready to support him.
• A Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivator discovered that virgin boys’ urine eased the poisonous gas, and Xi Daozi used it to persuade his disciples to do the same.
• As the Black Clan mocked Taiyin Sacred Ground over using urine, Xi Daozi struggled to keep his forces calm and focused on resisting the gas.
• Yan Qifei remembered that Qingxin Grass could neutralize poisons, so Xi Wuchang sent him to retrieve it while the others maintained their defenses.

Great Immortal Weasel and Xi Yifu fought a fierce battle, each countering the other's powerful techniques. As Great Immortal Weasel unleashed the foul Invincible Hundred Treasures Soup, Long Ling recognized its danger and tried to get away from Black City.

• Great Immortal Weasel and Xi Yifu exchanged powerful attacks, and Xi Yifu broke free of his Golden Light Purgatory with Boundless Taiyin.
• Great Immortal Weasel used the forbidden Gates of the Yellow Springs, but Xi Yifu awakened Aurora Taiyin and blocked it at the cost of exhausting herself.
• The Taiyin Deity's divine will appeared to protect Xi Yifu, then was struck and shattered by the Sky Zenith Domain's laws.
• Great Immortal Weasel and Xi Yifu continued their battle, with Xi Yifu breaking his Yellow Springs Purgatory through her Taiyin Domain.
• Great Immortal Weasel released Invincible Hundred Treasures Soup, whose corrosive black fog battered Xi Yifu's barrier.
• Long Ling recognized the soup as a Mao Mountain weapon made for half-human, half-corpse monsters and tried to flee Black City.

Great Immortal Weasel attacked the Taiyin Sacred Ground with his poisonous Invincible Hundred Treasures Soup, but Xi Yifu purified much of it with her Taiyin Power. When she gained the upper hand, Great Immortal Weasel brought out the Myriad Souls Banner, turning the fight against the Taiyin cultivators and leaving them struggling against ghosts strengthened by every soul they devoured.

• Great Immortal Weasel sprayed the battlefield with the poisonous Invincible Hundred Treasures Soup, enraging and nauseating cultivators from the Taiyin Sacred Ground.
• Xi Yifu formed a Spiritual Energy barrier and used Taiyin Power to purify the soup’s creatures, while Great Immortal Weasel struck at the barrier with a black beam.
• The Black Dragon Chieftain told his clan to follow Great Immortal Weasel’s example and use any treasure or method that could defeat an enemy.
• As Xi Yifu began to overcome Great Immortal Weasel, the Myriad Souls Banner appeared and unleashed fierce ghosts against the Taiyin cultivators.
• Xi Yifu used Taiyin Judgment to destroy the ghosts, but Great Immortal Weasel combined Netherworld Power with the banner’s resentment and redirected the ghosts’ attack.
• The ghosts killed Taiyin cultivators and grew stronger by consuming their souls, prompting an elder to warn Xi Daozi that the banner fed on their fallen disciples.

The Taiyin Sacred Ground retreated from Black City after Great Immortal Weasel used the Myriad Souls Banner to drive back its forces, and reports of the defeat spread across the cultivation world. Xi Yifu and the elders decided to seek allies and treasures capable of countering the banner, including a possible artifact held by Shi Wei.

• Xi Daozi ordered the Taiyin Sacred Ground to retreat, while Xi Yifu and the elders protected the disciples from the Myriad Souls Banner’s pursuing ghosts.
• Great Immortal Weasel let the Taiyin Sacred Ground withdraw rather than risk a costly pursuit, and the Black Dragon Chieftain warned him not to underestimate them.
• Cultivators across the Cosmos Cultivation World spread news of the defeat and mocked or debated the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s loss.
• Xi Yifu and the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s elders discussed ways to counter the Myriad Souls Banner and agreed to seek outside assistance and restraining treasures.
• Xi Yifu named the Heaven’s Secret Mirror and the Evil Cleaving Sword as possible allies’ treasures, while an old woman suggested Shi Wei’s Nine Yang Sky Burning Mirror.

Xi Yifu traveled to Fire Dragon Island and borrowed Shi Wei’s Nine Yang Sky Burning Mirror to counter Great Immortal Weasel’s Myriad Souls Banner. The mirror purified the banner’s evil power in battle, but Great Immortal Weasel survived and claimed Xi Yifu still could not kill him.

• Xi Yifu decided to seek Shi Wei and borrow the Nine Yang Sky Burning Mirror while Great Immortal Weasel strengthened his connection to the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Xi Yifu and her companions crossed the dangerous Endless Sea, found Shi Wei on Fire Dragon Island, and persuaded him to lend them the mirror in exchange for a future favor.
• Xi Yifu returned to Taiyin Sacred Ground with the mirror, and its forces confronted Great Immortal Weasel on the plain between Black City and the Sacred Ground.
• Xi Yifu used the mirror’s golden light to destroy the vengeful spirits and purify the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Great Immortal Weasel survived the purification and warned Xi Yifu that the mirror could not kill him.

After Xi Yifu defeated Great Immortal Weasel’s Myriad Souls Banner with the Nine Yang Sky Burning Mirror, Great Immortal Weasel summoned reinforcements from Lihu City through a teleportation formation. The battle resumed with the Taiyin Sacred Ground under pressure, and its disciples’ fear threatened to break their formation.

• Xi Yifu and the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s disciples celebrated Great Immortal Weasel’s apparent defeat as the dark clouds over Black City cleared.
• Great Immortal Weasel revealed a black token and activated a huge teleportation formation, warning Xi Yifu that one Nine Yang Sky Burning Mirror might not be enough.
• Cultivators from Lihu City emerged from the formation, and Great Immortal Weasel ordered them to slaughter the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s disciples.
• Xi Yifu urged her disciples to hold their formation while both sides exchanged attacks with their banners, spells, and Taiyin Power.
• Fear spread among the Taiyin cultivators, weakening their attacks and defenses as they looked to Xi Yifu for help.
• An older Taiyin elder called on the disciples to stay calm and hold fast to their resolve.

Xi Yifu and the Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators fought Tiger King, Golden Peng King, and Lihu City's forces near Black City, but Xi Yifu was defeated and captured. A golden-armored expert arrived to reinforce the Taiyin Sacred Ground, yet its attempts to rescue her failed, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xi Yifu rallied the Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators and used the Nine Yang Sky Burning Mirror to attack Lihu City's forces.
• Tiger King, Golden Peng King, and the Myriad Souls Banners overwhelmed Xi Yifu, broke through her defenses, and brought her crashing to the ground.
• Tiger King and Golden Peng King blocked Elder Xi Daozi and the Taiyin cultivators from rescuing Xi Yifu, then took control of her.
• The Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators attacked to free Xi Yifu, but Tiger King and Golden Peng King held them back with the Myriad Souls Banners.
• A golden-armored expert arrived and led the Taiyin Sacred Ground in a renewed assault, but Xi Yifu remained in enemy hands and the cultivators despaired.

Long Ling helped Black City defeat the Taiyin Sacred Ground and capture Xi Yifu, but Xi Yifu broke free with Elder Xi Daozi’s rescue party. After discovering that Black City’s defenses weakened on the full moon, the Taiyin Sacred Ground launched another attack, and Xi Yifu’s forces gained the upper hand as Great Immortal Weasel prepared to use the Myriad Souls Banner.

• Long Ling arrived on a golden dragon and overwhelmed the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s forces, leaving Xi Yifu and elders captured.
• Great Immortal Weasel offered Xi Yifu freedom and a Myriad Souls Banner if she submitted, but she refused and began working to break her seal.
• Elder Xi Daozi organized a rescue, and Xi Yifu shattered her seal, joined the battle, and escaped Black City with the Taiyin cultivators.
• Xi Yifu led the Taiyin Sacred Ground in gathering intelligence and preparing a counterattack while Great Immortal Weasel and Long Ling readied Black City’s defenses.
• The Taiyin Sacred Ground discovered Black City’s defenses weakened on full-moon nights and launched an assault under Xi Yifu’s leadership.
• As the Taiyin cultivators gained ground, Great Immortal Weasel ordered the defenses reinforced and prepared to deploy the Myriad Souls Banner.

The Tiger King and Golden Peng King activated the Nether Fission Array with the Myriad Souls Banners, annihilating countless ghosts into a black Sun Star that exploded over the battlefield. Xi Yifu and the cultivators of Taiyin Sacred Ground were destroyed, while Long Ling and the cultivators of Black City survived behind his defensive power.

• The Tiger King ordered the Tiger Order cultivators to raise the Nether Fission Array, and their Myriad Souls Banners formed a vortex of black ghost clouds.
• The Golden Peng King ordered the remaining Earth cultivators to spin their banners in the opposite direction, drawing ghosts into collisions that gathered destructive power.
• The collisions formed a black Sun Star, and Xi Yifu rallied Taiyin Sacred Ground's cultivators to attack it with the Nine Yang Sky Burning Mirror.
• The black Sun Star exploded into a mushroom cloud and Nethermist tornadoes, tearing apart Xi Yifu and the cultivators of Taiyin Sacred Ground.
• Long Ling and the cultivators of Black City survived because his defensive power protected them, and Hei Feng voiced their fear of the Nether Fission Array.

After Xi Yifu’s death, the Taiyin Sacred Ground and Lihu City prepared for an escalating conflict as news of the defeat spread across the Sky Zenith Domain. Evil path forces recognized the power of the Myriad Souls Banner and began sending envoys to seek an alliance with Lihu City.

• Watching cultivators feared that the Taiyin Sacred Ground would retaliate against Lihu City and that Xi Yifu’s death would destabilize the Cultivation World.
• Elder Qi Yuan, Wan Qianshan, and Su Youdao ordered the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s Luo Tian City stronghold reinforced and placed its disciples on battle-preparation status.
• Long Ling revealed that she had arranged masks of fallen Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators to coordinate with Hei Feng, then ordered Lihu City to prepare for war and monitor the Taiyin Sacred Ground.
• Forces across the Sky Zenith Domain reacted to the defeat, while evil path cultivators celebrated and considered exploiting the Taiyin Sacred Ground’s losses.
• Evil path forces watched the battle through a crystal ball, recognized the Myriad Souls Banner’s destructive power, and resolved to contact Lihu City about an alliance.

Unorthodox envoys failed to breach or understand Lihu City's formidable protective formation, while Golden Peng King and Tiger King watched their movements from within. Qiguang Temple arrived and entered the city, where Great Master Fajie and the monks formed an Indestructible Diamond Formation to strengthen its defenses.

• Unorthodox cultivators approaching Lihu City were repelled by its formation, which attacked their minds and souls, and their reports made their factions cautious.
• Golden Peng King and Tiger King chose to observe the unorthodox envoys rather than let them into the city.
• The Vajra Dharma Chan Sect's Qiguang Temple monks arrived, and their chanting alarmed the unorthodox cultivators, who began retreating.
• Tiger King and Golden Peng King welcomed Qiguang Temple and discussed the city's Soul Startling Formation and the arrival of Earth cultivators.
• Great Master Fajie led the monks in forming a golden barrier around Lihu City, which Tiger King identified as the Indestructible Diamond Formation.

Great Master Fajie helped Lihu City install the Indestructible Diamond Formation while explaining the Demon Master's plan to lure the Taiyin Sacred Ground into a trap. In Xiaoyao City, Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng spread false news of the Saintess's death, manipulated the enraged cultivators into gathering reinforcements, and left them poised to march on Lihu City.

• Great Master Fajie described the Indestructible Diamond Formation and told the Tiger King that Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng were disguised as Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators to spread news of the Saintess's supposed death.
• The Tiger King, Golden Peng King, and Hu Xiaocao agreed to strengthen Lihu City's defenses and prepare its cultivation weapons while watching the Taiyin Sacred Ground.
• In Xiaoyao City, Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng staged a mourning display that drew laughter from onlookers and fury from arriving Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators.
• Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng pretended to grieve with the Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators, earned their trust, and urged them to gather reinforcements before marching on Lihu City.
• The Demon Master watched from Lihu City and declared that Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng had successfully stirred the Taiyin Sacred Ground's anger and gained its trust.

Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng set up a concealed room and prepared to poison Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators by greeting them at a memorial service for the fallen. After their plan began working on arriving disciples, Elder Yin Jiuyou interrupted the service and demanded that it be dismantled, creating a chance for the two to provoke conflict within the Taiyin Sacred Ground.

• Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng concealed their room with a formation and prepared Ten Fragrance Tendon Weakening Powder and its antidote.
• Great Immortal Weasel organized a memorial service for Taiyin Saintess, Xi Daozi, and the other fallen cultivators, stirring mourners' resolve to seek revenge.
• Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng greeted arriving Taiyin Sacred Ground prodigies with tearful displays and secretly exposed them to the powder.
• Yin Jiuyou arrived with members of a rival faction, condemned the memorial service, and ordered Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng to dismantle it.
• Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng recognized that Yin Jiuyou's confrontation could help spark a conflict within the Taiyin Sacred Ground.

Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng stirred the Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators into opposing Yin Jiuyou’s attempt to cancel the memorial service. Moon Essence Fairy intervened, defeated Yin Jiuyou with their help, and welcomed the two into her faction as the memorial service continued.

• Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng feigned grief over the canceled memorial service, prompting Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators to speak out against Yin Jiuyou.
• Yin Jiuyou ordered his disciples to investigate and secretly punish the cultivators who challenged him.
• Moon Essence Fairy arrived, defended the memorial service, and rebuked Yin Jiuyou before the gathered cultivators.
• Yin Jiuyou attacked Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng, and Moon Essence Fairy fought him while they joined the battle.
• Moon Essence Fairy and the two men forced Yin Jiuyou to retreat, after which she accepted them into her faction and continued the memorial service.

Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng gained Moon Essence Fairy’s trust and secretly spread Ten Fragrance Tendon Weakening Powder among Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators in Wang Kui City. When Yin Zeyang challenged them to damage Moon Essence Fairy’s reputation, they let his attack injure them and publicly claimed she had acted against Elder Yin to save their lives, stirring an uproar.

• Moon Essence Fairy welcomed Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng into her lineage, and they began cultivating at Wang Kui City while planning to infiltrate the Taiyin Sacred Ground.
• Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng coated themselves with Ten Fragrance Tendon Weakening Powder and spread it through handshakes and sparring at the practice arena.
• Dragon Spirit Demon Master learned of their actions and welcomed the chaos their poisoning could cause within the Taiyin Sacred Ground.
• Yin Zeyang provoked Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng into a public sparring match, hoping to humiliate them and undermine Moon Essence Fairy.
• Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng let Yin Zeyang’s Dark Shadow Sky-Splitting Palm strike them, then claimed Moon Essence Fairy had acted against Elder Yin to save their lives, shocking the spectators.

Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng helped the cultivators at the martial arena punish Yin Zeyang, leaving him badly injured. Elder Yin treated his disciple and then began planning how to retaliate without directly confronting Moon Essence Fairy.

• Moon Essence Fairy's followers confronted Yin Zeyang, and Dao Yu challenged him after Yin Zeyang insulted the crowd.
• Great Immortal Weasel ignited Yin Zeyang with a fart, and Hei Feng, Dao Yu, and the other cultivators beat him while claiming they were putting out the fire.
• Hua Fei Que escaped the crowd and told Elder Yin that Yin Zeyang had been attacked.
• Elder Yin went to the martial arena, rescued Yin Zeyang, and took him home for treatment after learning his injuries threatened his ability to have children.
• After stabilizing Yin Zeyang, Elder Yin returned to his study and began devising a way to punish Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng without provoking Moon Essence Fairy.